Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt
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TextPublisher: Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016Description: xvi, 279 p., 24 cmISBN: - 9781477310724
- Industrialization -- Social aspects -- Egypt
- Urbanization -- Social aspects -- Egypt
- Sexuality -- Egypt -- 20th century
- Gender identity -- Egypt -- 20th century
- Masculinity -- Egypt -- 20th century
- Working class -- Egypt -- Social conditions
- Working class -- Egypt -- Economic conditions
- Industrial-urban space -- Harassment of women -- Child molestation -- Homosexuality -- Hetero-intimacy -- Egypt
- Egypt -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Egypt -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index.
Introduction. Townspeople, company people, and textiles : a woven history -- Pt. I. Gendered experiences -- 1. Competing masculinities : docile workers, aggressive afandiyya, and the mechanization of the modern subject -- 2. Urbanizing masculinity : workers, weavers, and futuwwat in violent alliances and fluid identities -- 3. Mechanizing women : industrial workers or women adrift? -- 4. Ladies in urban times : work, property, and gender in the modernity of the poor -- Pt. II. Industrial sexuality -- 5. Sexually speaking : unveiling the harassment of women, child molestation, homosexuality, and hetero-intimacy in industrial-urban space -- 6. Striking and sex-working : living with tuberculosis, syphilis, and other monsters -- Conclusion. The anxiety of transition.
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